German Light Anti-Tank Weapons of World War II

[@scottlindrum8909]

You have to have big balls to use some of those.

[@jgranger3532]

Thanks jmantime, great photos, editing, and music as always.

[@eldiablo4131]

It takes so much to make a video like this. I thank you for uploading it and I enjoyed the musical composition,,,

[@nostalgiadelpassato5621]

Bel video complimenti! Ho imparato cose sugli armamenti tedeschi che non conoscevo! Grazie

[@Franz_Z]

I loved that glide granade...

[@pirot3785]

One mistake I noticed: the Panzerbusche 38-39 are not bolt-action, they have a falling-block system where you rotate the grip downwards to drop the breach-block and expose the chamber.

[@heinerheise703]

Thx for video, very informative. Fun fact about the Panzerwurfmine (13:09min): German AT soldiers liked it because of the effective range and its effectiveness in combat use while american troop trials stated the Panzerwurfmine as useless. The video shows why: Have a look at the different throwing techniques of german and american soldiers shown - the americans actually haven't read the manual and are doing it wrong. ^^

[@madbepsi3781]

he forgot the Goliath. and the panzerfaust 250 can fly 250 meters.

[@jmantime]

+Marcus Mangano damn, i keep forgetting the goliath but i did put it in my Romanian weapons of ww2 video

[@madbepsi3781]

I did not know you would answer that... Thank you so much and keep up the good work!

[@madbepsi3781]

And do you know where the trigger on the panzerfaust 30?

[@jmantime]

Marcus Mangano underneath the flip-sight on the under side on the tube

[@madbepsi3781]

Damn you know much! Are u from Sweden?

[@harryflashman3141]

good little video. slightly ironic that the music was by Tchaikovsky who was gay and Russian. Hitler would not have approved.

[@wrnroofs]

thanks

[@johnjoe7826]

it's Bach

[@mikhailv67tv]

thaichovsky wrote this it was for a war when Germans were on the same side as the Russians. As for Gay who cares these days

[@letoubib21]

Nope! In 1812 the German countries fought with Napoléon AGAINST Russia . . .

[@letoubib21]

No, they were allies! Napoléon had made the Margrave of Baden to Grand Duke, the Grand Duke of Wuerttemberg to King. Both of them had gotten large pieces of Anterior Austria. So they were obliged by him as allies . . .

[@thebannedgreenman8939]

My old pater was in the German occupying forces in Norway. During anti-tank training he was in a trench which became sealed when the sides collapsed, as a tank drove over it. He was lucky to have been dug out alive. He was haunted by the event for the rest of his life.

[@vigneshpandian3829]

This weapons are definitely ahead of its time in technology.

[@johnvolt2411]

A very great video mate keep up the good work

[@pheinix123456789]

The panzerfaust 150 seems like a fantastic weapon decent ranger, high speed and very good penetration.

[@blessed1042]

Song ====> 1812 overture op. 49 - Tchaikovsky not Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004

[@ke3p3r62]

For those who care, the music is not Johann Sebastian Bach like writted in the description but : "Ouverture 1812" of Tchaikovsky.

[@chrism2027]

Aber echt schöne Musik zu dem Video gefällt mir sehr die Musik.

[@EstebanMataVargas]

Most of this weaponry would have been more than able to stand its ground during the Vietnam war.

[@owenst.hilaire769]

cool vid. I had read about a lot of that stuff but the number of anti-tank rifles they had designed was a surprise to me. I can see where the Hungarians got the idea for their Gephard AM rifle from. That super bazooka was a new one to me too and I had never actually seen pictures of the German recoilless guns in action. Very cool man.

[@xem1969]

Super info......

[@bakist5540]

Was there any panzerfausts that could be reused as much as say a panzershreck could be reused?

[@xaviercourtney]

Wow great vidoe, i had no idea they employed so many different AT weapons. Cheers for the great video.

[@sr633]

Video was done well. Very informative.

[@SystematicEliminator]

Didn't know about some of these weapons made available to the Germans.Thanks for the enlightenment..

[@Henryk516]

Very well done, to be honest I have not heard about 70% of the content. Thank you for your effort.

[@SnafuYuri]

I think that you may have some of these calibers wrong -- 7.92 is a standard rifle cartridge. I don't see how it could be an effective tank-killing round.

[@Vr6Zecke]

No the calibers are right ... the 7.92 could penetrate 25mm armor on 300 meter (mostly light armored vehicles at all fronts)...they where initially desingned for tank hunting....against the russians they became more useless and have been used for counter sniping..at the end of the war some came back but only because germany tried to throw everything against the allies that was left. The 7.92 however you can see on one picture has a significant greater propelland..that means faster bullet and that generates more penetration simply by the force of speed! And the last thing....germany invented the first anti-tank rifle at the end of WW1 with a higher caliber ..the allies vorbid germany at the end of the war to build rifles with such a great caliber... when the preparations for WW2 started ....germany was still bound to the versailles contract...and build weapons that outmannouvered the contract to not alert the world of their true intentions.

[@enoughrope1638]

the standard rifle round was 7.92 X 57. the panzerbusch used a 7.92 X 94 which had much more power. it could penetrate about 25mm of armor compared to the 14mm of the standard rifle round. This was under powered though and these guns were retired before the end of the war. they upgraded to the Solothurn s18 series which the video maker forgot I guess

[@AiralinWM]

i just noticed, why the multi national/ countries don't use the AT Rifle after the recent wars? (ww2 and Cold war :P) i mean like, why not Sniper Rifles? USA have .50 (12.7mm) Barret...that is basically cousin-like of the AT Rifles. i mean look at it, and its round. they are similar. but only barret is used on special operations and heavy firepower.

[@AiralinWM]

***** thanks

[@11Kralle]

There will never be any excuse for good taste in music :D

[@schizoidboy]

In the Osprey book on the bazooka it was stated that the Panzerschrek had the same armor penetration the American bazooka had despite being a larger caliber. I'm sure this is going to be challenged but that was what I read and this was based on a wartime study using a knocked out Panther tank testing out both rocket launchers.

[@jmantime]

schizoidboy early model panzershreck's did , but it could still kill every type of American tank used during the war, since most American tank had only 30 to 75mm of armor, except the T-28 prototype

[@chapiit08]

schizoidboy If I'm not mistaken Americans had two bazooka calibers.

[@schizoidboy]

Yes, I just glanced through the book and there was a later model that was larger in caliber to the ones used in WWII, but it entered to late for the war but was devistating during the Korean War. However, the overall design of the bazooka did change quickly to one that was capable of being broken down and didn't use the same shoulder stock with the dry cell battery design.

[@ironwolfF1]

schizoidboy The actual genealogy was this: the Germans studied captured American 2.36" (57mm) rocket launchers; they upped the game by developing the Panzerschrek (88mm) which in turn was evaluated by the Americans, which birthed the 3.5" 'Super-bazooka" (89mm). And thus the circle was closed...

[@gilterdonizete9604]

video very great. thank you

[@545x39Rat]

Wow I did not know they had a rocket launcher that can defeat 1000mm of armor

[@jmantime]

Hunter Graef it was only a prototype , to heavy to and expensive to mass-produce

[@rubenskiii]

jmantime stalin could be happy :-) 1000 mm? imagine being in an is-3....sloping isn't gonna help u....

[@jmantime]

Ruben de Jong lol, to bad the giant panzer-schreck was to expensive to mass-produce

[@CrniWuk]

Hunter Graef I would not give to much in to some of the describtions, many of them are exagerated, particularly when it comes to some of the anti tank weapons used by the infantry, 25 000 feet for a recoiles rifle is something that not even many modern Systems achieve their range is usually around 2000 meters. This also counts for many of the penetration figures. So take everything with a grain of salt. I would assume they are simply talking about theoretical numbers in most cases which are very misleading. It was rather difficult to hit a target past 50 meters with most anti tank weapons, even anti tank guns like the 75mm or 88mm guns would require very experienced crews to hit something past 800meters. We are talking about WW2 here, you had most of the time to aim and adjust with ironsights and crude optics - compared to today where range fingers and computer systems do the calculation for you. That's why most infantry engagements took place under 100 meters and most tank fights between 300 and 800 meters. The germans would very often leak informations about some of their prototypes with very unrealistic specifications - see Project Lowe, for propaganda purposes.

[@CrniWuk]

Ruben de Jong There probably was no weapon in WW2 that could penetrate 1000mm of armor - outside of warships and certain artillery weapons. Most of the numbers (if not all of them) are exagerated. We are talking about prototype weapons here but they are still made with available technology of WW2 in mind. Those are not plasma bolts or laser guns. Not to mention it is relatively easy to neutralize shaped charges, all you need is a wire or mesh in front of the armor to cause a premature detonation. You can find many pictures of Soviet T34 using some extra added stuff by its crews to give them some extra protection.

[@Terry8238]

Love that music and the video was good to

[@DEP717]

Is this the music from "Wolf Hall?" Well done.

[@flyingdutchman4you]

video content excellent, music perfect!

[@BASavage81]

Nice video, very informative. Nice choice of using Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture.

[@machinenkanone9358]

So now we see where Barrett got the design for their muzzle brake

[@vaninec]

good jobThanks

[@marincudina8838]

this video is awesome

[@okrajoe]

Interesting WWII weaponry.

[@jackharter660]

You know what would have been neat, If you showed the bullet and the rifle. You could even have put a standard nato round 4 comparison

[@enoughrope1638]

You forgot the 3.7cm recoilless rifle and the Solothurn S18 series.

[@W_Anchor]

A great video, liked it a lot. But... the links on the start got a little annoying. If you would have corrected them it would have been 10/10. I'm not here to criticize the video too much i absolutely loved it. Thanks for the video +jmantime

[@rubenskiii]

i drew a concept sketch of a 30mm AT-Rifle whou would be mounted on i light carriage and could be shoulder mounted and aimed, with an enourmus recoil absorb system incorperated in the stock :-) it could fire shells similar to "Hardkerngeschoss"

[@cftdd]

very nice assembly of weapons, a most educational AV. Germany must have spent most of the war retooling thier factories. I have to wonder if mass production of a few of these weapons would have served better than constant upgrading. The logistics of arming the German war machine must have been it's own worst enemy.

[@Zipotricks]

Our police has an Panzerbüchse 39 in the Basement. I thought the calibre was a .50 Cal.

[@ErikAdalbertvanNagel]

bolt-action is NOT semi automatic

[@SuppahTenko]

Anti-tank rifles quickly became obsolete in the war. Everyone who played red orchestra 2 knows how hard it is to destroy a tank even at close range, having to aim for weak spots and hoping to hit something vital or explosive on the inside. AT-rifles then were just used since they were available. The panzerfausts were effective although short ranged, especially in early models. Other mounted shaped charge firing guns weren't as viable. If you have such a big gun you might aswell field a Pak 40. Towards the defense capability of sloped armor, shaped charges are low velocity, so we get a higher ballistic arc. The round would therefore hit at an angle high angle at range and negate some of the sloping. That said shaped charges tended to deal not aswell with awkward angles since the fuse could simply fail, so even if the ammo could penetrate the effective armor at that impact the fuse could fail or the heatbeam of the sharge could bounce off. As far as I remember german was the only nation to field a lot magnetic mines and invested big in defense mechnisms on their tanks.

[@karlhans6678]

SuppahTenko How many anti-tank handheld grenades would it take to disable a tank?

[@SuppahTenko]

This greatly depends on what you damage inside the tank. This is true for all anti tank weapons. Spalling inside may injure or kill the crew, fire could start or the ammo goes off. It isn't necessary to destroy a tank completely, disabling it is enough, which can happen by a shot to the engine easily. It is possible to penetrate a tank but not damage anything inside, although with how cramped the inside of fighting compartments are, penetrating it will likely cause some serious damage.

[@karlhans6678]

SuppahTenko So anti-tank handheld grenades can be used against Abrams? i doubt that. Maybe T-72..

[@patrickmorrisey1684]

The second rifle was a falling block action,not a bolt action

[@jmantime]

Patrick Morrisey I fixed it :)

[@Inedit3]

The first bullpup rifle ?

[@kuhne8377]

good video

[@giusepperometta2634]

every time I see the German guns, stunned the rest, no army had weapons as advanced as a concept and manufacturing, today still many methods of assembling of a weapon are using the German weapons.

[@MrACP1911]

Oh Lord all mighty, the BSW was not an anti tank rifle, because of the improvement in tank building and armour, anti tank rifle became obsolete, BSW is actually a shortened version firing blank cartridges propelling an armour piercing HE grenade.

[@jmantime]

MrACP1911 its registered as an Anti-Tank rifle in Germany

[@ant4812]

Photo at 6:33 is amusing. Old mate would have his arm blown off if he pressed the trigger.

[@randomguy3251]

No, actually, if you looked more carefully, you would see that the end of the weapon was not resting on his shoulder.

[@ant4812]

Random Guy Good spot.Yeah, I see now.

[@scottlindrum8909]

You guys wait here, I'll go run up to that charging tank and stick a mine on the side.... What.. no I got this.....

[@БравыйШвейк-Копповойне]

Some of the models didn't know. Thank you ! Caught during excavations mainly hand grenades. schweik.ru

[@rollingthunder1751]

Cooool stuff, Man.

[@scottstewart1974]

Wow how brave or nuts would you have to be to toss a live "Nerf Dart" at an enemy tank. Lol

[@chapiit08]

I cannot understand the concept behind the 7,92X94 guns. I doubt it would even disable a tank tracks. A friend of mine who fought during the Armenian-Azeri war told me they used the Soviet made single shot large caliber (14mm?) gun to disable the tracks, but even then they had to risk their lives to approach the tank to blow it up, as RPG's were not available at all times.

[@tazelator]

chapiit08 They pretty much all are from the 39/40 period. At the time most tanks had no more than 30-40 mm front armor. If you could penetrate 20 mm at 200 m it was sufficient. The inter-war tanks were also not that heavy. Additionally you could use them against lightly armored vehicles. But you are right, against anything like t 34 or even panzer IV or the Sherman they would be utterly useless. Thats why they stopped making them. And this in turn is the reason why there arent many left. At the beginning of the invasion of the Soviet Union, even the standard anti-tank gun and the main battle tank panzer 3 with their 3,7 cm gun could not penetrate the armor of a t 34 at 100m. The only weapon capable was the 8,8cm AA. Later they put bigger guns on the panzer 3s and built more panzer 4s but at the beginning they were quite surprised. 7.92x94 was a cartridge that was overly wide, so the bullet would be propelled by an overly large amount of powder for its weight, which made its penetration a bit better.

[@Stripedbottom]

+tazelator Actually, even 30-40mm is a bit of an overestimate for that time period. Even in 1941, a tank with that much armor would have been considered top of the notch armor-wise, and most of them had less. For example, in the early days of Barbarossa the mainstays of the Red Army were the T-26 and the BT series of tanks; most models had only 13-15mm armor and, especially for the T-26, much of it was boxlike and not sloped. Easily penetrated with the panzerbuchse at combat range. The same goes for the Germans; newer versions of the Pz-III and the Pz-38t had 30mm, while the Pz-II and I and various other light tanks were armored similarly to the T-26/BT. The Soviet PTRD and PTRD rifles were moderately effective against the former, and had absolutely no trouble penetrating the latter. Of course you already had the T-28, T-34, KV series, Pz-IV, StuG and the H version of Pz-III. But in 1941, these were few and far between. Yet, as a whole anti-tank rifles were not really a very effective means of destroying/disabling tanks; it is said that the problem was not the ability to penetrate, but the inability to cause significant damage when they did.

[@Raygun222]

A gun like that was only effective against things like halftracks, armored cars and maybe even airplanes, because the 7.92x94mm had a muzzle velocity of over 4000 feet per second or about 1200 meters per seconds, but I have no info on AA use. Conclusion: Only effective during the beginning of WW2.

[@TheBic4]

there's no way these recoiless rifles have a range greater than a TOW. maybe it could shoot that far at 45 degree angle but never hit a target beyond 1000m

[@guntherzanutigh2679]

Es lo mejor que vi en armas alemanas contra carros blindados.

[@bluej4ykbbluejaysrule915]

Them damn gemans 0:35

[@javaidhaider9289]

Su 27 reversed engineered? From which aircraft? I think this is an original and successful design.

[@colonelklink8890]

Those anti-tank rifles were bad news... especially for Sherman crews. Beautiful music, thanks.

[@IKveldMedMrHenrix]

Panzer Faust. It Fausts Panzer

[@Jose-kb6nc]

+IKveldMedMrHenrix It Punch Tanks? 10/10 Would anti tank again

[@IKveldMedMrHenrix]

I thought it ment Panzer Fist

[@Jose-kb6nc]

Fist=Punch Panzer=Tank

[@Anvilshock]

+Lotus GoldLeaf bullshit on the punch

[@Jose-kb6nc]

You dont get ANY SENSE

[@MegaGuru79]

OMG the music!!!!!!

[@su-100isbetterthanjagdpant4]

1000mm!? wow. just wow!

[@mitchelmills8914]

the music is so romantic for such a gritty subject, is it like Wagner strikes again?

[@MbahArmy]

His Russian RPG ancestors, Russian-made weapons were inspired by German weapons, perhaps because after the war there were many blueprints of war equipment that were brought home by Russian soldiers

[@RithloveKhmer]

panzerfaust is grand father of RPG

[@Jose-kb6nc]

+RithloveKhmer PIAT and bazooka was made 1st in 1942 the panzershreck/faustpatrone appear in 1943

[@RithloveKhmer]

Just imagine What similar between Panzerfaus and RPG(big projectile and stay outside weapon) sure it grand father of RPG not bazoka

[@piotrek29798]

Its Deutschland not german, germans was slavic people they speaked slavic language. And Deutsch are not slavic they dont speak slavic language.. Thank you very much for help.

[@schweinehund3497]

Dude what? Modern germans are mixed with slavic and celtic as and not all the DNA is from germanic and nordic tribes. But that's about it. All european peoples are mixed among each other to some degree. And language =/= ethnicity.

[@piotrek29798]

Schweine Hund It's true, and im not really surprised, all what im surprised that people still call Deutschland, Germany, even if there is no original germans anymore because of mixing u have mentioned.

[@schweinehund3497]

piotrek29798 There is no way to tell if someone is an "original german" just like with russians. Also original german is very broad because of all the different german tribes.

[@piotrek29798]

Well you can check DNA match, but i doubt if there is any man with 100% DNA match with "100% ancient german" ;)

[@schweinehund3497]

You can only check ancestry on the fathers side AFAIK.

[@karlhans6678]

Panzerfaust 250 is basically an RPG-1

[@laszu7137]

Karl Hans Never heard of RPG-1. But RPG-2 from 1949 is just cheaper and less effective copy of Panzerfaust 250. Just like R1 copy of V2.

[@karlhans6678]

laszu rpg-2 is the one im talking about, my bad

[@Jose-kb6nc]

0:33 GEMAN GE-MAN G-MAN XDDDD

[@dankuspanku4650]

+Lotus GoldLeaf Illuminati confirmed

[@Jose-kb6nc]

Look at the thumbnail see the rocket? ROCKETNATI CONFIRMED

[@raiwserkoopa2221]

didn't know germany had technology in ww2 to make a 105mm gun with 1000mm penetration!

[@knechtor5648]

Probably an overestimation, but it was possible even back then, if you had enough explosive filler and a good liner that is haha.

[@MrACP1911]

Omg really a semi automatic anti rifle, what you are showing is the anti tank rifle, oh boy this should be good.

[@jmantime]

MrACP1911 are the annotations their ? I tried to fix the errors

[@NoOneLt]

No murder intended. God damm, now we can't sue him. Your logic right now.

[@jmantime]

NoOneLt what

[@NoOneLt]

"No Copyright Infringement Intended" - you really think those words mean shit?

[@jmantime]

NoOneLt it's all ww2 era footage , so its public domain, I was just covering my tracks :)

[@robertla56]

German Light Anti-Tank Weapons of World War II that is where Russian copy and modified and become RPG anti Tank rocket

[@epsi9750]

The 40w looks like the g3

[@laurencedarabia2000]

I thought that also the german-swiss Solothurn S 18-100 were adopted from wehrmacht.....

[@jmantime]

laurencedarabia2000 this is about german made weapons

[@lovepeace9727]

Using russian song in video about German weapons. Balanced, as all things should be.

[@satnikray]

Interesting... i knew the Russians got the AK-47 from the STG-44. Now i see something that makes me conclude that the Russian RPG-7 comes from the Panzerfaust 250 (at 9.21min) ! Watch this, something i used in former Yugo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG-2 To explane, the RPG-2 leads to the RPG-7( movie "Rambo")and on to the RPG-32. These copy-cat Russians lol!

[@alejandroames813]

don't forget your kammul

[@StalkerCrystal]

Ooo rgp7's mother is pzfaust 250

[@michaeldiebold8847]

I want a antitank pistol

[@retbull9996]

German porque no ases una serie de wappy whelles

[@jorgearroyo1342]

Aun luchando contra todas las potencias debimos ganar nos sobraba talento. No entiendo x q perdimos.

[@grahampalmer9337]

Umm. It appears this post has been copied by a Rave Soyevedi !

[@cult8625]

>Light

[@RicardoRMedina]

Dude your making me cry with that music, it made me not want to watch the video, for your own good change it!

[@marcopasi3891]

too later, in 1939 the industry are not for war..

[@fernandooliveirafrigato5810]

no seu DNA, fizeram e fazem o melhor. Hoje na Europa, no Brasil, em Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul , e .....

[@hphf9863]

This wepon is mother of rbg7

[@АлександрКузнецов-т6ч5б]

p.s. ничего их не берёт,зря изобретали!!!

[@anraca1894]

El, RPG, Ruso es copiado del panzerfaust,aleman.

[@مقاطعمنوعة-ز3ش]

😱

[@joesezzz4324]

Well they lost!

[@karlaiken6152]

For Micro1205 - Yes, unfortunately millions of young men died because of Hitler's bad decisions including some of my relatives who fought against yours (in the RAF), all of whom were doing their duty to their countries. All wars are unfortunate. Don't notice the silly comments by the Hitler lovers & jew-haters. Continue to find out about your missing grandfather & good luck in your search & greetings from faraway Jamaica.

[@kamalesdas6931]

I am Indian. I love germany .we are same Aryan civilisation .I feel pain For German

[@kostasgiannopoulos8107]

Bazooka power

[@theresamertens6187]

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[@fernandooliveirafrigato5810]

aos acreditavam, pela uma cidade melhor, aos que acreditavam pelo um estado melhor, aos honravam aos avós e os pais . através da propaganda. pela morte da fome e o emprego adquirido. deram, deram, deram, o seu melhor. na sua ilusão apostaram na ordem e justiça, contra os bandidos e comunistas.

[@9traktor]

Brave german soldier-boys!